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News from Digg.com - 50 min 24 sec ago
Eric Barone, who broke the world speed record for mountain biking in Nov 4, 2001, tried to break it again by riding down Cerro Negro volcano in Nicaragua. Seconds into his descent, Barone's bicycle snapped hurtling the cyclist down the volcano at 107 MPH!"It looked as if there was a rock or something in the path that made the bicycle break i...
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5 mistakes that will land you in $15,000 of medical debt

News from Digg.com - 59 min 42 sec ago
It took the Trim family of Arlington, Texas, three hours to go $15,000 into debt. One evening last spring, Alex Trim was knocked unconscious when a car hit his bike and he slammed into the windshield. Three hours, many stitches and seven CT scans later, Alex was discharged in pretty good shape.
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5 Radical Real People Who Escaped Poverty

News from Digg.com - 1 hour 10 min ago
Do you habitually ignore certain numbers that regularly pop up on your phone? You know, like the one from the mortgage company calling because you are 15 days late with a payment.
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MIT Has Already Built Mega-Efficient Nano Batteries!

News from Digg.com - 1 hour 30 min ago
In a surprise power development that could have implications for electronics, cars and even the military, researchers at MIT have created the world's first batteries constructed at the nano-scale by microscopic viruses.
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Game Key Revealer retrieves PC game keys

Crave from CNET - 1 hour 36 min ago

Game Key Revealer's interface is simple.

(Credit: CNET)

Lifehacker pointed us to a handy PC gaming tool this morning. Game Key Revealer is a free download that can tell you the security key for any PC games (of roughly 500 titles, according to its unspecified, presumably Turkish creator) you may have installed on your system. This could obviously be useful if you've lost your documentation. We were curious if it would help piracy as well, so we took Game Key Revealer for a quick spin this afternoon.

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Rumor: Apple and AT&T Developing iPhone Tethering Plan

News from Digg.com - 1 hour 40 min ago
According to a pretty legitimate-looking email thread from one of our readers, Steve Jobs may have responded to complaints that, since the pulling of NetShare from the App Store, iPhone-to-laptop tethering is impossible without jailbraking one's phone.
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Reason why breast cancer survivors relapse discovered

News from Digg.com - 1 hour 49 min ago
The reason why many women with breast cancer see the disease return after apparently successful treatment has been discovered in a breakthrough that could lead to improved treatments. The new insight, which challenges current understanding of cancer, could pave the way to more effective strategies to fight the disease...
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